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From: tempest@ecstucsuchico.edu (Kenneth K.F. Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: OIDS: The good, the bad, the ugly.
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.044232.11066@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 91 04:42:32 GMT
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In article <148370@tiger.oxy.edu> wirehead@oxy.edu (David J. Harr) writes:
>	                            Also, OIDS is copy protected :-(. I
>	  find this objectionable enought that I am still considering
>	  returning the game to the place where I bought it. I don't want
>	  FTL starting a new round of copy-protection schemes among games
>	  manufacturers. I'm very ambivalent about the game on this point.
>	  I like it, but I feel like telling my friends to call FTL and
>	  explain to them that they would buy the game, but thye object
>	  to copy protection and so they won't.

Look again.  When you register the game, you're given a code that
permits the game to be unprotected (i.e. you're able to copy the
game onto a floppy or hard disk without it asking you for the
original disk).  What's so difficult about sending in the
registration card??  I think this policy is very acceptable,
especially for a game of this caliber.


Ken
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